The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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